Kuksu was shared with other indigenous ethnic groups of Central California, such as their neighbors the Miwok and Esselen, also Maidu, Pomo, and northernmost Yokuts.

Kuksu was shared with other indigenous ethnic groups of Central California, such as their neighbors the Pomo, also Maidu, Ohlone, Esselen, and northernmost Yokuts.

Varying forms of the Kuksu Cult were shared with other indigenous ethnic groups of Central California, such as their neighbors the northern Ohlone, Maidu, Patwin, Pomo, and Wappo.

Together with the surrounding settlement, Fort Ross was home to Russians ( during the 19th and early 20th century Russian subjects included Poles, Finns, Ukrainians, Estonians, and numerous other nationalities and ethnic groups of the Russian Empire ), as well as North Pacific Natives, Aleuts, Kashaya ( Pomo ), and Creoles.

Ironically, today the fastest-growing businesses around Lake County are the gambling casinos presently operated by four Pomo rancherias, with more casinos planned.

Numerous Pomo tribes have been federally recognized.

The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo people in Sonoma County, California.

The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok, is a federally recognized American Indian tribe of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Indians.

* 1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.

He was killed in 1850 in an uprising against him by a band of Pomo enslaved by Kelsey.

The historic Pomo territory in northern California was large, bordered by the Pacific Coast to the west, extending inland to Clear Lake, and mainly between Cleone and Duncans Point.

One small group, the Northeastern Pomo of the Stonyford vicinity of Colusa County, was separated from the core Pomo area by lands inhabited by Yuki and Wintuan speakers.

The people called Pomo were originally linked by location, language, and cultural expression.

He referred to the language by the name of one band from the Clear Lake Pomo.

The Pomo people participated in shamanism ; one form this took was the Kuksu religion that was held by people in Central and Northern California.

Recently, analysis of archaeological evidence has suggested that the indigenous historical economy observed by the Spanish at their arrival in the Pomo lands of central California may have first developed during the Mostin Culture period ( 8500-6300 BP ) in the Clear Lake Basin.

The Pomo suffered from infectious diseases brought in by new migrants, including measles and smallpox.

* Barrett, Samuel A. Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians, Published by University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnicity, July 6, 1917, Vol.

* Pomo Bear Doctors, by S. A. Barrett, 1917

A number of Pomo were enslaved and abused by settlers Andrew Kelsey, whose name is attached to the town of Kelseyville today, and Charles Stone.

Later, the Pomo were forced to live in small " rancherias " set aside by the federal government.

In addition to the native Clear Lake hitch Lavinia exilicauda ( called chi by the native Pomo ), the lake hosts Channel catfish, White catfish, Brown bullhead, crappie ( both black and white species ), and other native fish species, as well as Florida strain largemouth bass and carp placed by the Department of Fish and Game for sporting purposes.

Umbellularia has long been valued for its many uses by Native Americans throughout the tree's range, including the Cahuilla, Chumash, Pomo, Miwok, Yuki, Coos and Salinan people.

The Pomo and Yuki tribes of Mendocino County treated headaches by placing a single leaf in the nostril or bathing the head with a laurel leaf infusion.

These languages are spoken by Native American communities around and east of Mount Shasta, others near Lake Tahoe, the Pomo on the California coast, and the Yuman peoples along the lower Colorado River.

A United States Army contingent under Gen. Nathaniel Lyon cornered as many as 200 Pomo on an island in Clear Lake, and slaughtered most of them — including scores of women and children.

One of the few Pomo survivors of the Bloody Island Massacre ( also called the Clear Lake Massacre ) in Northern California, a 6-year-old girl named Ni ' ka, or Lucy Moore, evaded the United States Cavalry by hiding underwater and breathing through a tule reed, and was thereby was able to survive.

The town currently sits atop several sites of Pomo Indian villages, and arrowheads are found in gopher holes with some frequency in the less disturbed areas of town bordering the flood plain.

The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake are headquartered here.

The Pomo people are an indigenous people of California.

These are attributed to both Pomo and Coast Miwok people.

* Middletown Rancheria ( Members of this tribe are of Pomo, Lake Miwok, and Wintun descent )

David Olmsted's dictionary depends almost entirely upon de Angulo, and carelessly includes Pomo vocabulary from a manuscript in which he ( de Angulo ) set out to demonstrate that Achumawi and Pomo are not related.

* Pomo ( The Boss ) and VTJ ( The Vice President ) are representatives of the management.

For example, Eastern Pomo has 4 evidential suffixes that are added to verbs ,-ink ’ e ( nonvisual sensory ),-ine ( inferential ), -· le ( hearsay ),-ya ( direct knowledge ).

David Olmsted's dictionary depends almost entirely upon de Angulo, who did not record the phonological distinctions consistently or well, and carelessly includes Pomo vocabulary from a manuscript in which he ( de Angulo ) set out to demonstrate that Achumawi and Pomo are not related.

The Pomoan ( or Pomo ) languages are a small family of Native Californian languages spoken by the Pomo people who formerly occupied the valley of the Russian River and the Clear Lake basin.

Northern Pomo and Northeastern Pomo are without known speakers and presumed to be extinct.

Regrettably, however, Barrett's geographical language names often lead those unfamiliar with the Pomoan languages to the misconception that they are dialects of a single " Pomo " language.

Essentially identical versions of this classifications are presented in Oswalt and McLendon's " Introduction " to the Pomo chapters in Heizer, ed.

They are also known as the Kashaya Pomo.

The first western settlers in the region were Russian fur traders who claimed the Pomo lands and forced the Pomo people into servitude ; today, the remaining Pomo people are greatly reduced in number.